FILM :: “13th” – A documentary about Mass Incarceration and Racial Inequality

I watched this documentary on Netflix this week and wow!, what a powerful and well put together documentary. If you are interested in (or just want to understand a different point of view) mass incarceration and how it relates to today’s racial inequality and the views of Black Lives Matter then you’ll definitely want to check this out. I highly recommend this documentary. It features a wide array of both democratic and conservative thought leaders on the subject, as well as industry and social leaders; so the film provides ‘both side’s’ thinking on why the country is where it is and where it can go moving forward. I especially found the footage and audio of Donald Trump at the end very fascinating. It features the words of Donald Trump overlapped with the words of racist race leaders from the 1960s. At the same time it shows angry white racists from the 60s shoving and pushing black folks as if Donald Trump is egging them on…Trump’s words today sound eerily similar to those of the racists of the 1960s – its very powerful and my words describing it here do not do it justice.